Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Graduate Student/Teaching Assistant
Location	Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Introduction	Pittsburgh girl, grad. student, wife, English teacher, cat mom, law school drop out, sometimes writer of fiction, homeowner, commuter, and crafty chick
Interests	This Old House, thrift stores, creative writing, contemporary fiction, Steelers, Zumba, grammar, remodeling, cute cat pictures, Latin, NCIS, DIY, Better Homes & Gardens, travel, running, Roman history, True Blood, celeb gossip, writing pedagogy, shopping, vintage, feminism, language, shoes, Law and Order
Favorite movies	The Usual Suspects, Independence Day, Crash, Dodgeball, Wedding Crashers, Forrest Gump, Shakespeare in Love, Bridges of Madison County, The Hangover, all the Bourne movies, So I Married an Axe Murderer, How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days, L.A. Confidential, 300, Good Fellas, Pretty Woman, Borat, Inception, The Blind Side, The Dark Knight
Favorite music	Train, Billy Joel, Elin Sigvardsson, Lowest of the Low, Athenaeum, Band of Horses, Vertical Horizon, Edwin McCain, John Coltrane, Mark Kano, OneRepublic, Jim Brickman, Carbon Leaf, Jars of Clay, Granian
Favorite books	anything by Tim O'Brien, Birds of America, Self-Help, The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, anything by Raymond Carver, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Rock Springs, First Body, Gilead, The Great Gatsby, Measure for Measure, The Selected Levis, The Dog of the Marriage, Reasons to Live, Jesus' Son, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, Drown

What's the most amount of sand you've ever had in your swimming trunks?

It's news to me that I've ever had swimming trunks. Unless bathing suit bottoms count. And in that case, a whole lotta sand.